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Tropical Fish Otoliths: Information for Assessment, Management and Ecology

Tropical Fish Otoliths: Information for Assessment, Management and Ecology

Green, Bridget S.
Mapstone, Bruce D.
Carlos, Gary

Hardcover

Series: Reviews: Methods and Technologies in Fish Biology and Fisher, Book 11

Anatomy & PhysiologyMarine LifeZoology

ISBN10: 1402035829
ISBN13: 9781402035821
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Aug 22 2009
Pages: 313
Weight: 1.41
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Techniques and theory for processing otoliths from tropical marine fish have developed only recently due to an historic misconception that these organisms could not be aged. Otoliths are the most commonly used structures from which daily, seasonal or annual records of a fish's environmental history are inferred, and are also used as indicators of migration patterns, home range, spatial distribution, stock structure and life history events. A large proportion of projects undertaken on tropical marine organisms involve removal and processing of calcified structures such as otoliths, statoliths or vertebrae to retrieve biological, biochemical or genetic information. Current techniques and principles have evolved rapidly and are under constant modification and these differ among laboratories, and more particularly among species and within life history stages.

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